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"The Rose of No Man's Land"

Charles Harrison (3) The Rose Of No Man's Land / Charles Hart (2) — Elliott Shaw – Dreaming Of Home Sweet Home

Label: Victor – 18508
Format: 
Shellac, 10", 78 RPM

A Charles Harrison (3)– Dreaming Of Home Sweet Home
Conductor [uncredited] – Josef Pasternack
Written-By – Ballard Macdonald, James F. Hanley
B Charles Hart (2) — Elliott Shaw– The Rose Of No Man's Land
Conductor [uncredited] – Josef Pasternack
Violin [uncredited] – Howard Rattay
Written-By – Jack Caddigan, James A. Brennan
Record Company – Victor Talking Machine Co.
A - Tenor With Orchestra, recorded 4 November 1918 in Camden, New Jersey
B - Duet With Orchestra, recorded 8 November 1918 in Camden, New Jersey

Orig Issue Victor Batwing 10" 78 rpm record 
Condition:
EXCELLENT faint scuffs,  plays  very quiet lightest hiss

A GREAT COPY



Music publisher Leo Feist published a version in 1918 as "La rose sous les boulets", with French lyrics by Louis Delamarre (in a "patriotic" format – four pages at 7 by 10 inches (180 by 250 mm), to conserve paper). A version with English lyrics by Jack Caddigan and James Alexander Brennan was published by Jack Mendelsohn Music in 1945 (two pages). Herman Darewski and others also published versions in 1918 and 1945.

While the main published versions were for piano and voice, other versions were arranged for band, orchestra or male quartette. Mechanicals for the phonograph and player piano were also released.

English lyrics
Written by Jack Caddigan and James Alexander Brennan:

I've seen some beautiful flowers,
Grow in life's garden fair,
I've spent some wonderful hours,
Lost in their fragrance rare;
But I have found another,
Wondrous beyond compare.

There's a rose that grows on "No Man's Land"
And it's wonderful to see,
Tho' its spray'd with tears, it will live for years,
In my garden of memory.

It's the one red rose the soldier knows,
It's the work of the Master's hand;
Mid the War's great curse, Stands the Red Cross Nurse,
She's the rose of "No Man's Land".

Out of the heavenly splendour,
Down to the trail of woe,
God in his mercy has sent her,
Cheering the world below;
We call her "Rose of Heaven",
We've learned to love her so.

There's a rose that grows on "No Man's Land"
And it's wonderful to see,
Tho' its spray'd with tears, it will live for years,
In my garden of memory.

It's the one red rose the soldier knows,
It's the work of the Master's hand;
Mid the War's great curse, Stands the Red Cross Nurse,
She's the rose of "No Man's Land".